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BASEBALL SLEEPING 10 To-night’s Weather—FAIR AND COOL. Building CAN Be Done On Time In New York’ See Page 3 Conran, 1920, (The ‘New York World), The “Ctreulation —_ a eile to All” CLEAN BILL GIVEN BROOKLYN BAL SICKNESS FATAL TO MUR by The Press Fubtiahing [NEW YORK, geRIOAD A, W. MURRAY CRANE DIES A VICTIM OF SLEEPING ILLNESS Noted Politician Fir First Stricken| in Fight At Chicago for World League. WAS AG. O. P. DICTATOR. For Years He Had Not De- livered a Speech or Submit- ted to an Interview. DALTON, Mass, Oct. 2.—Former United States Senator W. Murray Crane, who has beon seriously {il for several weeks, died suddeniy\at his home hore early to-day. While tn attondance at the notitica- tion ceremonies of Gov. Coolidge as Republican Vice Presidential nomt- hea at Northampton, last summer, Mr. Crane was stricken Ill, He recov- ered quickly, however, nounced that he was overcome by the heat. A fow weeks ago his condition be- came so serious that he was confined to his bed The former Senator's wife, his son, Winthrop Murray Cra and hia! two sisters, Miss Clara L. Crane and Mrs, Harry O. Bates, were at his bed- side when the end came «\t the Republican National Con Wutton last Juno Mr, Crane made tus Loague of Nations fight a. the advice of {riends w wlized his bealth had been wertously tmpaired by overwork. YW The immediate capac of death was fe given by Mr, Crane's secretary ax aveeoping sickness. He had been sicep- Cang, the secrotary maid, for Yornve days. About midnight it was} os Yealized the end waa near and four jhours later be passed nase A 8Y EX. SENATOR C CRANE AVOIDED PUBLICITY; POWER IN THE G. O. P., By Martin Green. Ex-mator Winthrop Murray Cranu was the last of the old schoo! of whis- pering politicians, He abhorred public- tty, For years prior to his death, al- though he had been one of the dicta- tory of the policies of ‘the Republican Party, he had not delivered a politica! speech or submitted to an interview on & political subject. Ho was a be- Hever in the principle that private Dusiness ts tho backbone of the Re public and that private business for {ts own protection—and ineldentalty Yor the good of the country—shoult Inflexibly support the Republican Party av long as the party was com- mitted to conservative ideals, Benator Crane was a descendant of fone of the oldest families in Maasa- (Continued on With Page) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements OFFICES CLOSE a ron e BO'CLQCK Sheek, eceived for The pe World after 6.30 P. M. fon rhe Gund wont should ge tn i, Wong ames ON. OR. BEFORE. FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION and it was an-| |FORMER SENATOR AND G. 0. P, LEADER WHO DIED TO: DAY ETS M SWNEY SINKING: “LAST APPEAL” 10 TENE FOOD FAILS | {Hunger Striker Reiterates, on | 51st Day, That His Decision Is Irrevocable. | LONDON Oct 2-——-What , te described aaa “fink! appeni" to Ter- fence MacSwiney accept food was| jmade by a docto: a Brixton Pison this morning accoPding to the noon {bulletin of the Iridh Self-determina \tion League on the condion of the; The Mayor, however, although he was told he was sinking fast, clined to change his decision to ab- stain from taking nourishment, | whic h he declared was irrevocable, |The League's bulletin read: “The condition of Lord Mayor Me- Swiney remains virtually unchanged. doctor warned the Mayor this morning that he was sinking fast and | The | made a final appeal té him to take food. The Mayor refused, saying hte | mind had been definitely made up trom | the beginning and that his decision | was irrevocable." This was the Cfty-first day of Mayor MacSwiney’s hunger strike > RUSSIAN ANTI-RED WAVE IS REPORTED Petrograd Workers Strike—Soviet Troops at Front Demand Immediate Peace, LONDON, Oct. 2.—An antl-Bolshevik wave is sweeping over Rusa and con- #ternation ts reigning in Moscow, cording to despatohes Holaingtora to- The majority of factory workers in Petrograd were reported to be on strike, | oatqneibly because of the food shortage but with the real object of overthrow- |ing the Med regime. Soviet troope on the western front were said to have held mass mmostings demanding tmmediate peace. It was recalled that jus" such demonstrations |immedtately preceded the overthrow of the Korensky regime, ac- received from | Gon. Budenny, the famous Rusatan leavalry lender whose forces recently were badly defeated In Galicia, will be} court-martluled, according to the de: apatches > K | Te Charge Landlords With ¥ CHICAGO, — Oot Charges « murder will bo preforred agatuet fat owners whose fallure to providesheat | remilts tn deaths, Dr, John 1, Robert.) son, City Health Gommissioner an- nounced to-day, ‘The frat wave of | winter brought nearly 100 complaints |adedoat invuMetang haat de-! TAX RATE WILL NOTBEH HEAVIER Personal at 2.39 of 1920 Won't Change Much. CRAIG HAS OTHER VIEW. Comptroller Estimates That Absolute Need of City Will Call for Rate of $3. A: Cantor, President of the | Board of Taxes and Aspessments, Ag- ured to-day that the new tax rater on real and personal’ property for Jacob per $100 and the personal $2.49. ‘But on an assessed valuation to raise the amount called for in the budget, would have to be at leant §%. This year the list of non-resident corporations taxable here ia reduced from 4,786 to 496, the change being due toa change {n the laws. Following are more names with a comparison of assessments this year and Mext for personal property taxes: Charke PF) Murghy George W, Wickemhasn ., Harry Bayne Whitney. | Thomas Fortune Ryan, , | Charles Sf. Sebwats With all non-revenue producing public improvements eliminated from the budget estimates the sum the city can raise at a 3 per cent. rate, |under constitutional Limits on Ite tax- ing power for current expenses, is ex- four or! hunger-striking Lord Mayor of Cork, | ceeded by at least $25,000,000. The tentative budget now before the Finance Committee of the Board lof Estimate calls for more than $530,- 000,000 in, 1921, Gomptrolier Craig in explaining the serious financial situation of this city to-day paid: | “The total amount of all kppropria- tions requested by the various de- partments, boards or bureaus of the | Municipal and County Governments Jamounts to $680,271,718, Of this sum $254,023,958 18 requested for ordinary current expenses for the year 1921. ‘There ts requested for the conatruc- tion of non-revenue producing public improvements, such as public schools, fire houses, police stations, hospitals, &c,, and the land necessary for sites, all of which under the require- ments of the pay-as-you-go act | would bave to be included in the budget, $104,782,627.44, “There will be required for de- ficlency tn the rollection of taxes $1,680,000; for the direct State tax $22,041,183.27, and for the redemption ‘and payment of interest upon out- standing obligations of the city ma- (Contimued on Second Page.) COLER’S BUDGET TREBLE THAT OF '20 Asks $20,032,266.71 for Public Welfare Against $7,500,561.43 Last Year. Aird B. Coler, Commissioner of Pub- | ilo Welfare, has submitted to the Foard of Matimate his departmental | nende for next year which total $20,- 092,266.71. This l# almost three timos more than Was required by the depart- ment in 1920, which totalled 97,600,- 501.49, Commiastoner Colter expial thai | 44,979,500 16 needed for how bulldings| 4 improvements | many hospital The budget shows an tnorease $1,100,000 for persona! service over i | year, caused by higher salarion ‘Tne for parsonal service ty 4... For supplies he requ 4 nearly two end one-half mily a wn. and additions to f } total 12.98 49, Hens in ce CANTOR DECLARES THREATS MADE ~ | 000,000, BY LANDLORDS 10. SCARE RE TENANTS Figures That Realty: Realty at 2.48 and} | Talk of Holding Them for) Damages if New Laws Are Overturned. ALL COMBINED TO FIGHT Claim That New Statutes Are “Confiscatory” Ridtiled by | Comparison With 1919 Rents. | | Pursuant to throats made by real eatate interests before the special ara- sion of the Legislature Inst week, the Real Petate Board has taken steps to 1921 will be about the same as for|tent In the courts the valldity of the 1920, when the realty tax was $248}iandlord and tenant legislation which | suspended the summary dispossess | uf}and provided unmistakable procedure | aout $10,000,000,000, the rate, In order | whton munrt be follow ‘ed by « landlord wishing to evict a tenant. A commit- tee to institute court action as soon an possible was named at a meeting of thé Board of Governors held yen terday afternoon, Counnel to the Real Eatate Board submitted an opinion to that none of the legislation passed In the spettal session will stand in the courts, because the most |mportant bills are unconstitutional and ail the other are invalid for other reasons, suspending the summary disposseas are invalidated by the court tenants unlawfully holding over or refusing to pay agreed rents will be held lable for damages auffered by landlords. ‘The action taken by the Real Bs- tate Board wag expected and evitable. It was not concelvalie that this body which, by close att on 10 legislation over a term of years, succeeded tn legalizing @ lease giv- ing the landlord all the right and the| tenant none would tamely submit to) legislation favoring the tenant LANDLORDS NOW CLAIM LUGIS- LATION 18 “CONFISCATORY.” The chief objection to the legisla- tion passed “by the special session which gives the tenant the right to & roof over his head as long as he pays a reasonable rent fixed by law is that It ls “confiscatory.” The Rea) Extate Board does not complain that the rentals paid by tenants in 1919 amounted sto “conflacation” of their property And if these rentais were not “con- fiscatory” {t requires an imaginative mind to assume that increases fixed ‘by the courts, under the law, can be “confiscatory.” The Real Bxtate Board is shocked and Chairman and Counsel of the Mayor's Rent Profiteering Committee in ad- viaing tenants to “sit fast.” This ad~ vice the Real Estate Board considers equivalent to advising tenants ety the law rempecting the binding effect of leases and other rental agreements laid down by Mr. Justice Lahman in the Bupreme Court in the (Continued on Becond Page.) HOTEL GOTHAM SOLD FOR $4,000,000 William and Jullus Manger, Pto- prietors of the Netherland, Are New Owners. The Motel Gotham, Fifth 6th Street, has been William and Ju of the Hotel Nethert nounoed to-day by B. L, Afien, President of the Hotel Holding Avenue and Wmirohased hy ineliding furniture, and paintings, ‘The Hote! Gotham was built in 1903 by the Hotel Halding Oompany. Say eens Sree the effect | It wan decided, upon advice of coun- | sel, to notify.tenante that If the laws | grieved at the action of the! to | furntahinga | “Circulation Books Open to All.” prs ii tata Tyee OCTOBER 2, OLD HEADS OF GAME MUST GO, NO PLOT 10 FIX 1920 SERIES, SAYS BROOKLYN PROSECUT AFTER EXAMINING PLA Lewis Gives National League Ch: Bill of Health “Would Not Be Healthy Gamblers to Approach Them ith “We Have Palled ar and There’ s| No Alibi,” Adds President of National League TO KEEP SPORT CLEAN Wants Man in Charge Who Is Noten Game and of Nation- wide Reputation. | By Hugh 8. Fullerton. (Copyright, 1020, by Hugh &. Fullerton.) No indictments; rain; double- header to-morrow. With gamblers rushing to Chi- cago to tell what they know and ~ 1920. RES HEYDLER, URGING ~ ABASEBALL SUPREME COURT SUBPOENAES OUT FOR ABE ATTELL Swann's Men Seek Fighter Said to Know Names of Baseball “Fixers,” District Attorney Swann has three subpoena servers hunting fdr Abe | Attell, priefighter and gambler, who ways he knows the namer of the men who arranged for the bribery of White Sox baseball players a year ago. Judge Swann intimated the aub- thority. “The amsertions of Attell,” anid the Diatrict Attorney, “Indicate that he knows the names and addresses of to attempt to get from lunder, and with more and more players | waiting to tell the Grand Jury the | styry Of the disgrace of the sport, the Man Higher Up In the bribery ring may be t¢xposed at any minute, The charges that Arnold Koth- stein, the New York sporting | man, was the man behind have raised a hike protest from bis friends and Rothstein has an- nounced that he i# done with gambling entirely. Hothetein was openly nanied by | gamblers in Cincinnat! and was the man whore name was used as | the backer of the bribery in- dustry. Hin declaration that he met Bill Burns and refused to enter into rhe conspiracy, and the evidence presented by him that another person sent the telegram signed with his initials, offset the | testimony. | “NATIONAL MUST GO,” COMMISSION SAYS HEYDLER. Meantime, with half a dosen agencies busy uncovering the | crooks, Jaok Heydlor, President of the National League, took the first big step'toward the restore- tion of baneball, | “The National Commiasion | must go,” he told me yesterday. | “Phe people have no faith in us | and never will have. We have men who profited by @ corrupt gambi- ing agreement." There is 4 special wtatute covering that Offense and, ; Moreover, It ls a felony to make | money by gambling through trick or device. We want to know the namen! Attoll says he has of men who re- celved money tn this county on bets on ‘fixed’ games.” j William J. Fallon of counse! for Attell said his client would make no voluntary statement, but waa ready to answer a Graad Jury bubpoena or | meet an indictment. os OLYMPIC ATHLETES ACCLAIMED BY CITY | Decorated by Mayor Hylan After ‘Parade—To Be Dined at the Waldorf To-Night. Mayor Hylan pinned medals on the breasts of the two hundred membe: of the American Olympic Team in front of the City Hall at 4 o'clock this afternoon. A parade down Fifth Ave- nus, starting at Slat Btreet, preceded the prementation, ‘The formation of the procession was: Grover A. Whalen, Grand Marshal, and staff. FIRST DIVISION-—Pollce; the Po- loos Department Band; the Executive Committee of the Mayor's Committee failed. There is no alibi. "The hope of the game les tn the establishment of @ court whioh will handle all cases. It must be composed of men entirely outside of baseball, men of na- (Continued on Second Page) ee entice GROVER BERGDOLL SEEN IN NEW JERSEY? | Sussex Qounty Freeholder Reports He Was Driving an Automobile Near Hackettstown. Frecholder Robert Of @mith of Buasex County, N. J. reported to the Shoriff at Newton, N. J, to-day’ that he had soon Grover Cleveland Berg: oll, wealthy dratt dodger, at 10 | o¢look thie morning, He sai4 Nergdoll was driving an automobile on the road from And. lover to Hackettstown, Ho said he | had ween Hefdoll before and was certain of the Identification, an| [alarm was @ent out to watoh the/ rowd. WISCONSIN HAS 2,631,839, WASHINGTON Oot &—The Census today the | joonain | 2,681,089, an 119, OF 18@ per cent, population ia 4,097,664, an| increase 870,409 or 23.4 per cont | with Dakota has 684,899, an increase 61,061 oF Li Ha Sen Micelaeippl ae 178 ia 108, & decreas 4 por cont, 258, ar 0.4 of jo in Meeting Distinguished Guests; tho Executive Committee of the Amateur Athletic Union; the American Olym- vic Team and the American Olympi Committee, SECOND DIVISTON Seventh Reg- iment Band; detachment of New York Guard under Major Daly; delegations of athletic amociations of New York. THIRD DIVISION—¥Fire Depart. ment Band; athietes of the Police and Fire Departments The Mayor reviewed the parade of the returned athletes on its ar- rival at the City Hall and then con- ferred on them specially #t sok med- als presented to them by the City .f New York. Those who won pointe tn the competitions at Antwerp re- colved particular designs, The Olympic team will be the qussta at a banquet at the Waldort Astoria to-night, _——— ITALIAN ENVOY LEAVING, | WABKHINGTON, Oot. & | milo Romano Avexsana, Halla im bassador to the United Htates, in to be transferred to another post by hte Gow ernment Notice ef tia trai on waa received to-day. It la unde from Washing: y the Ambassador | ood that he ts to | be given @ more Important position, — | Taron Avessana Waa appointed Am- | bassador (o thie country just feat CJ oH 0 tm quocen ‘iy te ov eel Here, syne died stninguon Pot" Otters Now Yorks Ne j'ninaed from the pions Clean He Declares. District Attorney Lewis, following examination of members of Brooklyn National League Baseball team to-day, gave them a clean poena servers have Grand Jury au-|of health in the following statement: OUSTED FIREMAN RESTORED TO DUTY FOR HEROIC DEED Tischler, Dropped on Charge of Striking Superior, Saved Four Lives Later at Blaze, Louls Tischler of No, 6 West 111th Btreet was reinstated in the Fire De- partment to-day by Ffre Commis- sioner Drennan, The order of rein- ataternent recites that Tisohler had been charged with striking former Battalion Chief Waiter Jones and dia- rvice and that auch penalty was too severe to ft the cir- cumstances of the cane, A rehearing of the charges was re- cently held while Tischler was out of the department. In the tnteiim, while driving @ taxicab he came upon fire in Forsyth Street one night last summer and from an adjoining house at the risk of his life he rescued four persons from the top Moor. This act was brought to the at- tention of Mayor Hylan who ordered & rehearing of the charges, It de- veloped that Tlachler had not been tried on the charges against him, but had been dismissed becau of his failure to appear at the trial, Tischier'e retnatatement does not carry back pay for the year and « half he was out of the service, nor does the time count on bis service record. ~_ “| BEATS THE MOVERS BY BUYING FLIVVER; SELLS AT $10 PROFIT Banker Trucks All Household Be- longings Himself When Unable to Get Vans. HU a the brief story of « Man who beat the movers and then some He is A. Willig Moody of the Bquitane ‘Trust Company, and hin prevent habitat ts the Park Avenue Ho. tel, Fatling to adjust matters with hin landlord he moved out of bis up-town apartment and looked for another, In vain he, searched, Thon be took # multe at the hote! for the-winter and, # came upon the second horn of the dileomma—there wore no movers to move him. Happy thought, Ho bought a “Mivver” truck for $690 and he and Nie son, who ta ac broker, moved all the howsshold belongings, including the piano in five trips, Then the won sold the " ever for $700. we 12g peal) Sa AL A HEADS PLAN “COURT” OF NOTED , Y CRAN es To-morrow’s Weather—FAIR AND WARMER, | mubject and I invited the PRENSA hands of the investigating in Chicago indlenting that the fessional gamblers who corrupted. world series {ast year had begun to do the same in the thin year, This public announcement responsible New York paper my duty to investigate the the end that I might oMcially before the coming series \it there was any basia for suc! ment. I immediately telegraphed Prosecuting attorney in Chicago questing that he give me any mation that he might have upon to produce at my office all of Diayers of the Brooklyn team were eligible to play in the series. The District Attorney im wired me that he would be glad to operate with me, and that should evidence develope that I could use | would communicate with me, I had no further communication him. I have personally every member of the Brooklyn eligible to play. This morning my attention has beam called to statements purporting to have been made by the Chicago State's Attorney, in substance, that some.of this year's major league games were (xed by © gambling clique, and that he bed information that groundwork had beon Inid to fix the 1920 worles by thtls same gang gamblers, I have wired to the cago attorney to send me any information which he has. I have ae yet recetved any answer, If Chicago attorney furnished any formation to this office, or any ls forthcoming at any time, of honesty on the part of elther or gambler, or any one, prompt proge cutton will follow. My investigations have not dige closed a single suspicion that there has been any attempt to fix the oem Ing series. Not only have my inves tigations falled to dimcloes any fete that would lead me to believe that Brooklyn player had been but from my personal interview witht them | would think would be dangerous for any gambler te proach any one of them with a honest euggestion. . Twenty-four members of the lyn toam were examined at the of District Attorney Lewis, burden of aj] the statements, playora and management alike, that none had received aay to “threw the games, ‘The Robing examined this moi by District Attorney Lowia and sistant District Attorneys and Hematrest were “Id” Carrol) Billot, Peter Kildurt, Miljus, Manager Wilbert Preaident Charles H, Ebbets, ae Ivan Olson, Ba~ errr ee SS LE ten mn